Bit 'o history.... When Darrough and Kaplan resurrected the Eugene Linux Users Group, Kaplan became de facto president and El Jeffe.
Cohn, in a bloodless coup, stole the tri-corner newspaper cap and imaginary gavel (Only Kaplan posseses the REAL gavel deal). In fact, it was an e-mail SNAFU by which I found out I was not supposed to be talking to the public and corporate sectors about Linux anymore. "Nobody wanted the job" is bull-crap. We, sans Cohn and probably everyone at EFN, had grand plans for ELUG and none of them were even slightly close to BSD, pumping GPL or stuff like that the original basis and purpose was to spread the word, amass a knowledge base and help thy fellow PC enthusiast. Seems a bit more sinister and weird now, eh? About 2 years ago (check the archives) we had arguments pertaining to organizing ELUG. I defer to those arguments pro and con and hereby present a motion to defer organizational discussion until such time that a reliable, knowledgable, personable and stable(?) individual or panel can be installed as El Jeffe, etc and organizational skills, etc be honed and displayed for our general perusal. Now, for something completely different.... I nominate new-guy-in-town-sorta KBob, El Jeffe, with Bob Crandell, Veep and Larry, Ben or Ed, Secretary. Seth should share Technical Issues and Intelligence with, say Rob and maybe a younger member, as a panel. We should have a Corporate Interface position, preferably with non-retail, non-gasoline sales experience (Crandell?) and an Information Officer to propagate pamphlets, impress the press and amuse the news. Jaime and at least one other should cover the newsgroups & mail lists. Further, I motion we carry these positions until such time as difficulties, personal or professional issues or traitorus acts present themselves or one year whichever comes first, for each office. At that time we will appoint a panel of 4-6 to nominate officers. I'm not promoting "Robert's Rules", but this business of "Seth is the best guy for all jobs" is bunk. I'm sure he is busy enough with outside projects as well to carry this motley crew through growing pains while retaining his famous "objectivity". No offense to Mr. Cohn, he's a great person, but if we're going to do this, let's do it democratically as possible, eh? Have we any seconds to the motion? James Kaplan On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:14, Sum Yung Guy wrote: > (So far, President Seth has no opposition, even if > his election is under auspices suspicious - nobody else wanted the job > when Seth volunteered). > Because I plan to attend, I'll note that I have room for a > passenger if driving is required to get to the meeting. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
